Gohlis

Blücher was not informed that the Allied army would take no action on the 17th in order to bring up reserves and regroup. Blücher therefore, after a bit of reorganization himself, continued his attack on the 17th against the French …

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Blücher was not informed that the Allied army would take no action on the 17th in order to bring up reserves and regroup. Blücher therefore, after a bit of reorganization himself, continued his attack on the 17th against the French occupied villages of Eutritzsch and Gohlis. It was now that the Allied superiority in numbers began to be felt. Yorck’s Prussians, who had suffered most of the losses on the 16th, had been pulled out of line to refit. The task of driving the French out of the villages was given to Russian formations that had been only lightly engaged. The French had no such luxury. Marmont’s depleted corps, along with Delmas’division counted far fewer men in line than the day before, but they would again have to defend against Blücher. Kapzevich and St. Priest attacked Delmas’ French defending Eutritzsch, while Sacken moved against Gohlis. Dombrowski’s diminished Polish Division defended Gohlis and Quintte’s cavalry guarded the French right flank. Blücher had all his forces in motion by 9AM. Early on, Vassil’shikov’s cavalry charged and drove the French cavalry back across the Pathe, then turned to help push Delmas from Eutritzsch. The Poles in Gohlis defended the village vigorously, but also were slowly pushed back. By the end of the day, the Russians held both villages.

Gohlis, Germany

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Emperor Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. The battle was the culmination of the German Campaign of 1813 and involved 500,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 200,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 127,000 casualties, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.

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